The Impact of Teamwork Perception on Organizational Commitment through the View of Team Characteristic and Process

Abstract

This significant study area of team development has covered in the aspects on workplace commitment. This paper seeks to question and discuss the relevance of employee perception of teamwork capability and organization commitment. In particular, it aims to describe the team factors which indicate team performance evaluated by individual attitudes and draw up the relationship between teamwork perception and organizational commitment. The study constructed main variables which interact with teamwork performance in perception of employees. Those independent variables are 1) team characteristics (goal& roles clarify, individual personality, culture diversity value and team size) and 2) team process (task interdependence, effective training and communication). The study is based on a survey of 201samples of various Thai employees. The finding reveals that team characteristics (team size, goal& roles clarify, agreeableness and culture diversity value) and team task process (effective communication and training) impacts on the perception of employee in team ability. The paper suggests that firm might develop a training programs and communication supports for stimulating the collaboration between member in work teams in culture learning and knowledge exchange in order to gain management efficiency.